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situations. . But in the shade of masses of stone, particularly 
inland, towards the forests, are found two species of Angelica 
and Heracleum, on which I am unable to decide. Among 
them the Sarana* and Fritillaria are frequently seen. Pisum 
maritimum, Cochlearia danica, Ranunculus acris, Galium 
boreale, Geum intermedium, a Rumex, Turritis hirsuta and 
glabra, and a Cardamine, are also not uncommon. But 
I will detain you no longer from the forest, towards 
which, if you enter into my feelings, you must already have 
cast many a glance, and along whose border we proceeded 
with some difficulty, bending under branches of trees and 
climbing over colossal trunks, which frequently impeded: the 
path. But farther it was impossible to penetrate; the high 
tide reaches the gigantic inhabitants of the forest, and we were 
compelled to proceed along the boarded path which the enter- 
prising Governor Baranow formed for his own daily walking, 
and which is in part kept up by his successors. I dare not take 
you immediately into the thicket, you will be fatigued by the 
frequent and vain attempt to penetrate through, and thus lose 
the strength which is requisite for the farther prosecution of 
our excursion: and this labour would take away all power of 
enjoyment. Meantime, let us examine a little the general 
aspect of the Forest. It principally consists of two kinds of 
Fir: of which the species are not correctly determined. The 
Russians, who inhabit Sitcha, call one of them the Pine ( Yely 
or Jelj), the other the Larch (Listwenj), though neither bears 
the least similarity to the trees which are thus named in 
Russia. Both are referrible to Michaux's genus Abies. The 
Pine, as it is called, seems to me analogous to the North 
American Pine (Pinus balsamea). Both of these trees must 
be peculiarly eligible for masts, and building-timber, in 
general, as they attain an immense height; yet the wood of 
the Pine is not much prized. It is said to be of short dura- 
* Lilium Kamtschathense, L, — The state of this plant that occurs at Unalaschka, 
and which we suppose to be that of America, differs materially from the Kamt- 
schatkan species, and is probably a peculiar one, Lilium quadrifoliatum of Meyer, 
in Relig. Hankeane, Fasc. II. p. 126. (Chamisso.) 
